Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miners and Laborites who have not seldom hanged "Murderer Churchill" in effigy, proved so receptive to the new compromise that a slogan ran through the coal fields last week: "Churchill will fix it!" The owners, slow to relax their demands, nevertheless announced that "in deference to Mr. Churchill" they would take his proposals under intensive advisement. Finally it was apparent to all that Premier Baldwin displayed great shrewdness in letting "Winnie" turn the Cabinet's somersault...
Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia presided. Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain was observed to relax in his chair and absently puff a cigaret. Foreign Minister Briand of France evidently at ease, beamed. Newsgatherers remembered that in March both Sir Austen and M. Briand sat haggard, tense, nerve-wracked at the Council table...
...motors of his big De Havilland ship were examined, found in flawless condition after a month and a half of droning through all temperatures, humidities and aridities, from the English Channel, over the Dolomites, Syria and Arabia, the Indian Ocean, New South Wales-13,000 miles. Cobham planned to relax for a day or two, then fly home again. Object: to prove that airplanes can traverse the most hazardous, inaccessible arcs of the globe...
...Manhattan from Riverside, Conn., came last week Dr. W. E. Dentinger to speak, at a meeting of the National Life Conservation Society at the Hotel Astor, on "Musico-therapy." Just the thing, he said, for hysteria. Ladies in the audience were asked to close their eyes, relax, while a pianist concealed from view played soothingly, monotonously, Schubert's Serenade, Vice President Dawes' Melody in A. Good for cows, too, he said, makes them give more milk (see MEDICINE, p. 28), makes hens lay more eggs, helped Saul's insanity, cured Gladstone's rheumatism. Fourteen Manhattan hospitals...
...conditions there. Their attempt to forbid the mailing of photographs of the tribes on the outlying islands was the result of this feeling. In reality the Philippines have attained a high degree of civilization according to current Occidental standards, and it be hooves the United States government to relax the reins rather than tighten them...